Nine year old Beautiful Sayers wants nothing more than to be liked and accepted, and never stops trying to unlock the secret of finding her way into the hearts of others. Do unto others and love your enemies is what she has been taught, but her classmates can't see past her bright red hair and two different colored eyes. She and her faithful dog Colby might just crack the code.

It’s April of 1917, and World War I has reached Elizabeth’s family on their wheat farm in North Dakota. Although the battles are being fought overseas, the war has affected her in ways she couldn’t have imagined. Elizabeth is thrust into a new role after her brother and father leave the farm to do their part in the war. And she’s only eleven years old!

ClaireLee’s life changes when she must take charge of her siblings and depressed mother, and she finds relief in lies. She sets out to impress a group of popular girls and deceives her way into the Lavender Girls Club, though her best friend Belinda won't be caught with such shallow puddles. ClaireLee drifts further from honesty, her friend, and a broken mother’s love, until one very public night.

Between the Lines tells the story of three girls who become friends during the racially-charged aftermath of the 1967 Detroit Riots.
Hattie Percha is crushed when the riots start on her tenth birthday, and when she must move away from her treasured childhood home and friends, attending public school for the first time, she’s afraid her life is over. Then, she meets Beverly Jo Nichols, her first b

Carley and Troop, blood brothers for life, spend a summer together like no other. Releasing a trapped raccoon, battling their club rivals, the Spiders, climbing Cave Springs Mountain at night, and skinny dipping in crazy old Luke Webster's pond are just a few of their adventures.
Travel back with Carley and Troop to a simpler time...a time for growing up, adventure, and fun!

Leah's dull summer turns dangerous when she discovers a hidden ladder that transports her back to the days of the Underground Railroad, where she helps freedom seekers, risking her own life in the process. Leah also wrestles an ethical dilemma as she journeys through time and a crisis of faith.

Twelve-year-old Charlie Applegate and his three best friends embark on a journey to find Travis' father. Their quest takes them to many strange places where they meet a host of unusual characters and dangerous situations.

Eleven-year-old Charlie Applegate's life gets complicated as he copes with girls, a new friend who lives in a foster home and a psychotic bully. He is also worried about his increasingly prophetic and cryptic dreams.

Twelve-year old William and ten-year old Rebecca have come to live with their family at a lighthouse on the edge of Lake Michigan in Door County, Wisconsin in the 1920s.They soon find themselves facing a series of adventures and dangers climaxing with a terrible catastrophe that threatens the lives of the entire family.

Eleven-year-old Bernice Givens learns about courage and fear when she becomes a freedom fighter in the civil rights movement that her hero, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leads in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, during the historic spring and summer of 1963.

The screenplay adaptation (unproduced) of this book has already won a Gold Award at the WorldFest International Film Festival. A Gone With the Wind kind of story set in the era of Madmen (late 1950's). Emmy, the daughter of an eccentric aristocrat and her beloved nanny suffer the whims of an evil socialite. However, her father tells her she has her own, personal, guardian angel. Ages 9 and up

In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black and left at an isolated farmhouse in Dayton, Ohio.
Who are the men in black? Are the men in black trying to kidnap them--or protect them? And if they're trying to protect them--from what?

Joey Delaney is only sixteen years-old, but she's not letting that stop her quest to become a star newspaper reporter. It's the summer of 1942, the world is going mad, and there are a million stories begging to be told. When a sought-after movie script gets swiped right under Joey's nose, she's on the case. The only thing she hasn't bargained for is the attention of dreamy Elliot Duncan.

As did Ociee Nash in the first novel, “A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street,” she now travels back to Asheville, North Carolina, but this time, she’s in the company of her brother, Ben.
Before they depart, however, thanks to Ma Gram, they are treated to a thrilling riverboat ride on the Mississippi.It’s easy to pick up the trail of the young Nash children even without having read the other stories.

Sometimes A Warm Rain Falls is a young adult novel about growing up in the old mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts during the 1960s. More specifically, it tells about the relationship between Noel and Guy, two mismatched friends who end up forming an unlikely bond.

It’s 1917 in East St. Louis, Illinois. The wealthy Goodwin family and their children have been living with a dangerous secret. Suddenly, their 16 year old Negro maid Emma Lynn starts asking questions no one wants to answer. Where did she come from? Where are her parents? Why does she look like a darker version of the Goodwin daughter?

The American Revolution is in full swing, and Sarah Moore finds herself right in the middle of it. When she returned to Virginia to live with her aunt’s family and learn from their tutor, she certainly had no plans to get involved with a possible spy! With a war going on, her family back in Kentucky, and people choosing sides all around, Sarah begins to wonder if she can trust anyone—even God!